Web Services Interop Plug-fest - 6-8 November 2007

Web Services Interop Plug-fest - 6-8 November 2007 Microsoft Corporation would like to invite you to a 3-day Web Services Interop Plug-fest on Tuesday November

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Web Services Interop Plug-fest – 6-8 November 2007

Microsoft Corporation would like to invite
you to a 3-day Web Services Interop Plug-fest on Tuesday November 6, 2007 to
Thursday November 8, 2007 from 09:30am to 5pm each day.

The Interop Plug-fest is an ad-hoc, open
forum for companies who have implementations of various Web Services protocols
to meet with engineers from the Connected Systems Division and test against the
upcoming version of Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation / .NET
Framework 3.5 products.

Plug-fest attendees should bring their own
laptops, their implementations and any other tools they feel would be useful.
Scenario documents are available to attendees of the plug-fest before the
event, and progress of interoperating implementations will be tracked
throughout the event. An internet connection will be available during the
plug-fest.

The focus of these plug-fest meetings is on
interop testing, so no feedback will be taken on the WS-* specifications themselves.
As a result, there is no requirement to sign any feedback agreement or other
legal agreement before attending this plug-fest.

This plug-fest will be held at the
Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA – see full address details below.

Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks will
be served, but participants will be responsible for their own dinner
arrangements on most if not all evenings. Please make any special dietary
requirements known in advance, and every effort will be made to accommodate
them.

This plug-fest event is open to anyone who
desires to participate and who can bring an implementation to test
interoperability with Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation product in
any or all of the following areas:

WS-Policy
(1.2 (2004/09), 1.5) and WS-MetadataExchange (2004/09) are included in
several scenarios

Scenarios documents and online test
endpoints are provided to help preparation for the event at http://mssoapinterop.org/ilab/Please let me know the scenarios of primary interest to you at this event.

In addition, Microsoft plans to extend the
available scenarios to better cover the ratified specifications and to address
requests we’ve heard from you. We’re pleased to say the CardSpace
“experiment” in July was successful enough for additional product
teams to propose new scenarios or new implementations of old scenarios for
testing at this event. More as we get the information onto http://mssoapinterop.org/ilab/
… Please let me know of additional areas you believe need test
coverage as soon as possible.

In addition to the usual interop testing,
we may also do further detailed chalk-talks like the July event’s
discussion of how to implement CardSpace support within any product that
supports WS-Trust. Please let me know if you have particular areas where
you’d like such a deep dive.

We also recommend you join the WS-Builders@yahoogroups.comdiscussion groupand use it for any questions around scenarios documents and WCF
endpoints.

Feel free to pass this invitation along,
either in your company or elsewhere. This is an open forum. No invitation is
required, but an RSVP is appreciated by the event hosts to facilitate accurate
logistics planning. The list of attendees and general plug-fest results will be
made public after the event.